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Wildfires in Karpathos Κάρπαθος

Karpathos, Greece, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 377 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 22° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 22° · 71 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 22° · 74 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 22° · 70 % · 39 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 65 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 69 % · 47 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 68 % · 59 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 68 % · 52 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

377
hectares burned
1.2 %
of its area
2
fires
310
km²

How many times has Karpathos burned?

Karpathos has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2021. The most recent: Karpathos fire, 23 September 2021, with 183 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
377
cumulative ha
23 Sept 2021
most recent

Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Greece →

Fires that entered Karpathos

  1. 183 ha Karpathos fire, 23 September 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 183 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 194 ha Karpathos fire, 23 September 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 242 ha in total · 4 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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